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ОглавлениеA Light Through the Storm
B. BOYD
Copyright © 2014 B. Boyd
All rights reserved.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2100-1
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
INTRODUCTION
This book is not intended to give you answers on how to fix your child, fix your parenting, or solve your problems. The purpose and goal of this book is simply to relieve your symptoms, validate your feelings, and help you keep your sanity!
That sounds like a simple goal doesn’t it? Well, if you are reading this book, you probably realize that it is not so simple. As parents, we all have struggles. Sometimes they are short term and we can weather the storm. Then, there are the times when the storm continues to rage and we begin to lose hope that the light will ever shine again. It is during these times that we need help and hope.
I pray that this book will bring you that help and hope while providing you with ways to care for yourself during these turbulent times. I can remember times, in my own experiences, where I wondered if I could make it through. I became very depressed; I lost hope, felt empty, and helpless.
In each chapter, I will introduce you to “Sanity Savers” that will help you get through this time in your life. Sanity Savers are actions or challenges for you to try in order to help you find relief, hope, and a little bit of light and encouragement. I implore you to step out on faith and try at least one of the Sanity Savers. You would not be reading this book if you had other options or knew what steps to take on your own. It is perfectly understandable to reach out for help, to reach for some type of answer. I have been there myself. My storm was not a brief period of time that I weathered and then quickly recovered. My storm lasted for over 5 years. I felt very much like you. I was at a complete loss, depressed, feeling I was going to have a nervous breakdown, and finding nowhere to turn. The action items included in each chapter, called Sanity Savers, are things that I found helpful in my recovery process. I sincerely hope this book will guide you through your own personal storm and provide you with some small relief, even if it is just to know that you are not alone. We can sometimes feel isolated and think we are alone in dealing with these issues. I cannot tell you how many parents shared their stories with me as I began to open up and share things with other people. Parenting challenges are much more common than we think.
Your storm will have an ending and you will see glimpses of light through the storm. My prayer for you is that your story will have a happy ending and that you will return to the strong, happy person that you once were.
